Quarter-Finals 5 & 6: Jeopardy NCC (2-10-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from Quarter-Finals 5 and 6 in the Jeopardy! National College Championship tournament

Quarter-Final 5:

YOU’LL HAVE PEAKS & VALLEYS ($600) The central peak of this mountain, Massif, is seen here

($800) In Israel, not Hawaii, the Hula Valley is where 3 tributaries join to form this river

PASS/FAIL ($600) Explosive word for a long pass in football

($1000) A Cold War-era novel & movie popularized this term for a device that’s supposed to prevent unanticipated disaster

BEFORE & AFTER ($800) That bold end-of-a-performance action is still very small compared to all the water it’s in

($1000) A regiment of liquefied carrots & grapefruit that’s a freeway space where many drive 75

ANSWERS: show

HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE ($1000) Hey, you got a new job? Congrats. Now you’re looking for an apartment and here’s some free advice: 30% is the traditional max for your RTI ratio– short for this

THIS PARTY IS LIT ($2000) A villa in France is the site of an extended house party in “Conversations with Friends” by this much-lauded young writer

OPERA ($800) Alberich is very fond of that ring he has crafted in an opera by this composer

($1200) Katharina’s aria “My Strength Fails” is a highlight of Hermann Goetz’ opera based on this Shakespeare comedy

($2000) In Richard Strauss’ opera about this woman, her dancing leads to the death of John the Baptist

HISTORIC PAIRS ($1200) In 1386, Jean de Carrouges met Jacques le Gris in an affair of honor seen in the image here and in this 2021 film

($2000) ASTP was short for these two spacecraft test projects; the US-Soviet docking re-created at the Air and Space Museum

AFTER & BEFORE ($800) It’s the adverb in the acronym FKA

($2000) French suivre, “to follow”, is related to this 5-letter word that means the same

Quarter-Final 6:

TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY ($800) I.L.L. is short for this service; your library can even get materials from the Library of Congress, but you can’t take those home

GRAMMY’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR ($1000) 2014: Soy this guy…he’s a winner, baby–(“morning phase”)–so why don’t you name him?

WORLD CAPITALS ($800) The Tigris River cuts through the center of this capital

($1600) This capital of Malta was named for a Grand Master of the Knights of St. John

($2000) The Vardar River divides this capital of North Macedonia into old & new sections

FAMOUS PAINTINGS ($2000) This American exhibited her “Children Playing on the Beach” at the final Impressionist exhibition in 1886

COMEDIANS’ ROLES ($1200) Tig Notaro got some laughs playing a feisty helicopter pilot in this Zack Snyder zombie flick

($1600) “B” is for this frank comedian who plays Frank Murphy on the animated hit “F is for Family”

MEDIEVAL LIFE ($400) Medieval Brits mainly dressed in this animal fabric; by God’s bones, itchy my tunic be!

($800) A major part of medieval Japanese art was portraits of these men hung in temples– the portraits were– and venerated

($1600) the university in this city between Florence and Milan attracted students from around Europe and built a college for the Spaniards

($2000) This medical practice generated a vacuum above the skin that was supposed to draw out “vicious humors”